In addition to tax cuts, the way they thought of was to find new markets. In fact, they also have a new market this year, which is Liaodong.
The development of Liaodong forced millions of barbarians to be involved in the market of Daqian, but the only poor savages left were animal skins. Although they had demand for woolen cloth, they did not have the funds to meet the demand. These million savages The consumption of woolen cloth is less than one-tenth of that of the general public, and the market is simply not enough to improve their current situation.
For Zhen An and the others, the only way to find a new market is to have it be wealthy and have a large population. They looked through the map and found that only the vast Western Region could meet their needs. The Western Region spans tens of thousands of miles and has a population of more than a thousand. Ten thousand, and they were rich in gold and silver. Back then, the Han Dynasty could transport millions of pieces of silk to the Western Regions a year, and they could also transport millions of pieces of wool cloth to the Western Regions. This vast market was enough to bring them back to life!
Although they found the market, Xiliang Jun became a huge stone blocking their westward journey. They knew the rebellious name of Xiliang, so they dared to send a transport team to Xiliang just like this. They were afraid that they would be beaten by meat buns and dogs. Wu Hui, Zhen An and the others know that only when Xiliang is in the hands of Daqian can they open up the Silk Road!
Then they remembered the last parliament. Every member could see Lei Gong in power and even give advice to Lei Gong in power. The most prestigious among the members was Xiangkai. Isn't this the person who naturally helps them speak out?
So Zhen An and the others spent huge sums of money to help Xiangkai build a luxurious academy, subsidize the students of Longshan College to study, and Xiangkai had twice as many civilian children. They even arranged for their own children and grandchildren to enter Longshan Academy. Zhen An and the others spent a lot of money At such a high price, they only asked Xiangkai to help them speak in the parliament. That's why this scene happened now!
Niu Guidu was shocked speechless by Xiangkai's bandit logic. Is this still the Taoist celebrity who was famous all over the world? How could he be so unreasonable and like a bandit?
After half a day, Niu Gui could only say: "This is a military issue. I still need to discuss it with the governor! I will give you an answer tomorrow!"
War is a matter of life and death, so naturally it cannot be decided easily. Xiangkai also knew this, so he nodded in agreement!
At this time, Zhou Dun, the representative of Mayi, said: "Although we have established a country in Daqian, we don't have a capital yet. This is completely unreasonable. We should decide on a capital this time!"
Other representatives also agreed enthusiastically. They also wanted Daqian to set the capital in their hometown. Although the hope was slim, there was hope at least!
Only senior officials like Niu Gui have ugly faces. They all know that Xu Wei is interested in Ji County. This year alone, he has invested more than one billion in Jizhou to build infrastructure, expand the city, and build factories. In this year alone, there are more than 100 million yuan in Ji County. Tens of thousands of tribesmen! It was only because Jixian County had not been completely developed that it was not decided to become the capital.
Zhou Dun, the representative of Mayi, shouted: "The place where we started as a cadre is Mayi, and now there are millions of people in Mayi, and the annual tax revenue is more than that of Jizhou and Youzhou. No matter how you compare, Mayi They are all the most suitable to become the capital!"
But at this time, Qian Zhan, the representative of Taiyuan, said loudly: "Our Jinyang is the place where Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty lurked the dragon. This means that Jinyang has the spirit of dragon. If we want to establish the capital, it must be in Jinyang!"
Zeng Yan, the representative of Weijun, said: "Our Jizhou is the food and grass of the Han Dynasty, and Weijun is Jizhou in a prosperous place. The capital should be located near the granary. Otherwise, how can we support the millions of tribesmen around the capital? There is no such thing in the world." It’s better than having the capital in Yecheng!”
Regarding the issue of the capital of Daqian, they have various opinions on the location of the capital, but basically no one takes Jixian seriously, because even after Xu Wei's training, the population of Jixian at this time did not exceed 300,000, and the area was even more It was so remote that they didn't even think Jixian was their enemy.
Only Xiangkai understood that Xu Wei was interested in Jixian, but he didn't understand what Xu Wei was looking at. Regardless of its history, prosperity, or danger, Jixian was not enough to become the capital of Daqian!
So after the day's meeting, Xiangkai came to Xu Wei's home!
Zhang Ning brought one-year-old little Xu Hao to Xiangkai and said, "Call me Father Xiang!"
Xiangkai smiled and said: "Is this the child of the ruler?"
Zhang Ning nodded and said: "I am one year old and I still can't speak clearly!"
Xiangkai took out a jade pendant and said, "This is for children to suppress evil spirits and keep them safe!"
Zhang Ning was so happy that the jade pendant took little Xu Hao and said: "Why don't you thank me daddy quickly!"
At this time, Xu Wei also returned to his home. When he saw Xiangkai, he smiled and said, "Master comes to see the child too?"
Xiangkai said: "Let's see the ruler's children. At the same time, I have a question that I want to ask the ruler!"
Xu Wei asked curiously: "Are there any questions that Master doesn't understand?"
He was really impressed by Xiang Kai in this parliament. He had a bit of an imperialistic demeanor. Xu Wei knew that Xiang Kai should be in contact with Zhen An and the others, so he would help Zhen An and the others report the case!
He didn't know whether to be happy or sad. Workers had not yet been trained, but businessmen had begun to tentatively make their voices heard in the Four People's Assembly.
Xiangkai said: "The government spent huge amounts of money to build Jixian County, presumably because they want to treat Jixian County as the capital of the country!"
Xu Wei nodded and said: "That's right!"
Xiangkai wondered: "Why would the ruler have such an idea? No matter where you look at it, Jixian County is not enough to be the capital of a country!"
Xu Weidao: "The only advantage of Jixian over other places is that it is close to the ocean. In the future, there must be Daqian in the ocean. The ocean will become the development trend of the future! If Daqian cannot master the ocean, it will definitely lag behind other nations in the future!"
"Ocean?" Xiangkai was surprised by this reason. If it hadn't been for more than a year of development, Xiangkai would not have paid much attention to the ocean. However, Daqian caught millions of stones of fish from the ocean this year, which made everyone The tribesmen of a large cadre can still eat fish and meat in disaster years. This alone made Xiangkai start to pay attention to the ocean, but he did not expect that Xu Wei would pay so much attention to it. It seems that he paid more attention to it than the grassland. You must know that the Hu people are The enemy of the Han Dynasty for thousands of years!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xu Wei said firmly: "In the future, the importance of the ocean will even exceed the importance of the desert to us. The ocean will not only become our granary, but also our new Silk Road. On the road to our new home, Daqian must pay attention to the ocean in the future! In less than 10 years, Master Xiangkai will discover that the ocean will become the lifeline of our Daqian!"
When Xu Wei said this, Xiangkai became even more confused about the lake. Does the ocean really have such great potential?
But now Xu Wei has always taken a long-term view, and Xiangkai can only wait for time to verify what Xu Wei said.
Xu Wei continued: "In addition to the reason of the ocean, I built Jixian County to set a model to change the future construction plan of Daqian City, so that everyone can see how an industrialized city is built! Such a new city must Building in a poor and destitute place."
Although Daqian's industry is developed, it is only comparable to that of Dahan in the feudal era. Essentially, Daqian's industry is still in the handicraft stage, but many of them were forcibly raised by Xu Wei, even surpassing those of the first scientific and technological revolution. level, such as the assembly line that emerged in the second technological revolution, and the blast furnace equivalent to the 20th century. Most of the cities in Daqian were built according to the standards of the feudal era. They are completely different standards from industrial civilization and will be incompatible with each other in the future. That's for sure!
So Xu Wei wants to build Jixian into a benchmark for cities in the industrial era, so that all future Daqian cities will be built according to Jixian!
The cities in Daqian are basically products of the feudal era. They are small in area and have high city walls. Each market square is built like a war fortress. Although it is safe, the various supporting facilities are not complete. The city focuses on Military defense capabilities, not production and life, and a small population are not a problem. After all, in this era, there are no more than 10 cities with a population of more than 100,000.
However, after entering the industrialization era, the urban population will increase rapidly. There will be more and more cities with hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people. The city construction methods of the feudal era will become increasingly inappropriate for this era.
There are many shortcomings in the urban construction of Mayi. Because the population has grown too much, industrialization has been too fast, and urban expansion has been too rapid. At the beginning, no one could believe that Mayi would have a population of one million, so Mayi's supporting facilities were extremely backward. Shortcomings such as sewage treatment capacity, urban drainage system, and the obstacles of the city wall are all shown in Mayi. The city wall that was originally built at a huge cost was demolished because it was not suitable for the rapidly developing city of Mayi and could not adapt to the rapid development of the city. It's clean and creates huge waste.
Today, Mayi has become the first city in the world without city walls, but problems caused by rapid development still plague Mayi.
The most modern thing in Mayi is probably the drainage system. The extensive application of cement and the improvement of technology have made the price of cement lower and lower. In addition, Mayi is the richest city in Daqian.
Three years ago, in order to improve the situation in the city of Mayi, which is covered with dirt on sunny days and rainy days, Mayi began to pave roads with cement. Mayi was the first city in Daqian where all roads were paved with cement!
But the consequence of this is that as long as it rains heavily, Mayi City will definitely suffer from waterlogging, and the drainage system will become a huge problem, and it will still have the style of a modern city in the Celestial Dynasty.
So in order to solve the drainage problem, Ant could only dig up the road he had just built and build a huge underground pipeline network system. It can be said that it caused a huge waste. After all, the price of cement in this era is not cheap.
Therefore, Xu Wei was determined to build a benchmark city in the industrial era this time. Let the officials in Mayi know how to build an industrialized city.
Sewers, water supply systems, transportation systems, community construction within the city, industrial zone construction, various supporting facilities, etc. Xu Wei all built according to his own standards in modern China!
In this way, although the initial construction cost is high, there is no need to build, dismantle, and build again. Such repeated construction is a waste of resources!
In this way, the subsequent large-scale urban construction will not have to pay the cost of learning, and resources will be saved tenfold and hundreds of times.
After talking about urban issues.
Xu Wei said to Xiangkai: "I listened to what the master proposed in the parliament today. If it weren't for you and I really didn't pay attention to the problem of the textile industry, we can still discuss tax reduction, but attacking Xiliang is a bit inappropriate. , this year the entire Central Plains is suffering from drought, and the Han Dynasty and us are trying to find ways to overcome this difficulty. If we send troops to Xiliang at this time, people will starve to death! "
"You are also someone who experienced the turbulent period of the Han Dynasty. At that time, hundreds of thousands of people starved to death in Jizhou every year. The great virtuous teacher launched the Yellow Turban Uprising in order to save the people.
Now if people starve to death again in Hebei under our Dagan rule, Master feels that we are worthy of the great sage and mentor, worthy of the millions of Yellow Turban soldiers who died in battle, and worthy of the tens of millions of people who follow us!"
Xiangkai said awkwardly: "The old Taoist just wants you to pay attention to this issue in power. There is no need to send troops to Xiliang this year. It can be done in two years. If we occupy Xiliang, the Han Dynasty will be gone. The land for raising horses will be strategically important to us." Daqian has the upper hand, and by occupying Xiliang we have opened up the Silk Road. There are tens of millions of people in the Western Region. If they buy our woolen cloth, the crisis in the textile industry will be lifted."
Xu Wei nodded, acknowledging what he said, and then said: "I hope Master Xiangkai will speak out more for the people at the bottom in the future. The big man became what he is now just because he couldn't hear the voices from the bottom!"
This can be regarded as a slap on his face. It doesn't matter if he speaks for businessmen, but the most important thing is to help the people speak out. Otherwise, this parliament will really become a mouthpiece for businessmen, which is not what Xu Wei wants.
Xu Wei thought for a while and found a way to increase the representatives of farmers, workers and soldiers in the parliament and let them speak for themselves!
After Xiangkai left, Niu Gui also went to Xu Wei and complained: "What is the use of the Four People's Conference in power?"
"They all complain and want to reduce taxes, but this year's drought has reduced the income of Daqian. If we continue to reduce taxes, how will we feed the army? How will we carry out industrial, agricultural and urban construction?"
"The old people in Bingzhou don't even understand us. Back then, we spent more than hundreds of billions on Bingzhou. Only then did we have the prosperous and powerful Bingzhou. Now we just ask them to support the construction of other places. How can we be like this? Lots of opinions!”
Because Bingzhou is the old territory of Dagan, it has the best infrastructure and industrial construction. 70% of Dagan's tax revenue comes from Bingzhou, but 70% of this revenue is spent on Youzhou and Jizhou, so they all I have some opinions!
Xu Wei smiled and said: "I don't worry about the scarcity but the inequality. I didn't think well about the tax reduction. However, this year's drought has indeed affected many tribesmen, and it is indeed necessary to reduce some pressure on the tribesmen in Bingzhou. , but now that the tax has been collected, and the food supply is still tight this year, the food will not be returned.
There are now more than 2 million households in Bingzhou, so why not give each household 30 kilograms of dried salted fish? I think everyone will be happy!"